The issue of the establishment of Syria’s constitutional committee will be in focus of the consultations UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen will have in Moscow next week, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Friday, TASS reported.
"I just spoke with him on the phone, he is in the middle of consultations with the Syrian negotiation committee and the opposition, these discussions are being very constructive. From there he is going to Moscow and then coming back to Damascus. The creation of constitutional committee will be central in the agenda of discussions of my Special Envoy," Guterres said. "We don’t have any time frame now, but we want to do it as quick as possible."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Pedersen, who will visit Moscow on January 21, is expected to share his plans on how to launch the work of the Syrian constitutional committee. Lavrov expressed hope that the agreements reached at the recent Russia-Germany-France-Turkey summit in Istanbul, first of all the ones on the necessity of the swift launch of the Constitutional Committee, will be implemented as soon as possible.
